When the human hypothalamus detects that body temperature is higher than the setpoint, it initiates a cooling procedure: (1) blood vessels in the skin dilate (vasodilation) to radiate heat into the environment, (2) sweat glands are activated to increase sweat output (diaphoresis) for evaporative cooling, and (3) breathing becomes deeper and may shift to mouth breathing to increase heat loss from the lungs.

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• vasodilation concept
• setpoint concept